APA 7th Edition in MS Word

Question

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I am writing this post because I am currently a Doctoral student and have figured out how to modify MS Word to include APA 7th formatting.  I am only providing this file and the necessary location for it for education purposes.  If any installations of MS Office are corrupted as a result of using this file, I am not responsible to address or repair any issues. 

That being said, I have been using this on my Office 2016 installation for just over a year.  It is not complete, but is a start.  I mostly use Journal Articles as references, but I am working on getting the rest of the common publication types up to the APA 7th standard.  I also recommend that students and professionals use the APA 7th Ed. Publication Guide to check their work for accuracy before submitting for grading.

The following file will need to be placed in this location: C:\Users<your_login_name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Bibliography\Style

File URL: APASeventhEd.xsl 

Once it is placed in the folder, restart MS Word and the style selection under the References tab should show APA7. I cannot verify this functionality for any other versions of Word.  Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions and I can help where possible. I know there are many students out there struggling because MS Word is behind on this standard.

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Answer 1

The LCID of 1087 denotes Kazakh per https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office\_standards/ms-oe376/6c085406-a698-4e12-9d4d-c3b0ee3dbc4a

Answer 2

Great Thanks to you Mike!. It worked for me!

Answer 3

On a Mac, Word templates are stored in the user Library folder, which is hidden by default. To open it, hold down the Option/Alt key while clicking on the Go menu and choosing Library. Word 2011 templates are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Templates

There may be something similar for the Bibliography styles

Answer 4

Thank you so much Mike!! I really appreciate you creating this code for all of us students. I installed it and it works perfectly.

Laura

Answer 5

hi, thanks for the file, I see that for resources that have an url it says "retrieved from" but in Apa 7 ed. that was removed, so how I can remove that legend? any clue? thanks in advance

I haven't figured it out yet because I'm no expert in coding (lol) but check out lines 7,077-7,165 if you have Notepad++. The answer may lie in there

I was able to change the colon to a dot (before the URL) in lines 7,097-7,099:

<xsl:if test="string-length(b:InternetSiteTitle)>0 and string-length(b:URL)>0">

  <xsl:call-template name="templ_prop_Dot"/>

  <xsl:call-template name="templ_prop_Space"/>

</xsl:if>

I don't know if that's correct, but hey it works and my program and my thesis aren't broken 😂